Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 13 shown for “Bernard Baron” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 14:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jacobus Gibbs, Architectus
Bernard Baron · 1747

Baron Adolph De Meyer Self-Portrait
Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1 Sep 1868 - 6 Jan 1946 · c. 1920s

The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Aet. 67. A.D. 1743
Bernard Baron · 1743

The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Aet. 67. A.D. 1743
Bernard Baron · 1743

The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Aet. 67. A.D. 1743
Bernard Baron · 1743

Evening: The Four Times of Day
Bernard Baron · March 25, 1738

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II
Bernard Baron · April 1, 1745

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III
Bernard Baron · April 1, 1745

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II
Bernard Baron · April 1745

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III
Bernard Baron · April 1745

The Most Reverend Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury
Bernard Baron · 1750

Stained Glass Panel with St. Bernard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1505–08

Commode
Bernard III van Risamburgh · ca. 1765–70
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 115 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6517 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 14:09 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.